What is 'Red Hat nash' in the boot sequence ??? (rpm comment)

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:55:41PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:55:41 -0400
> From: Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: What is 'Red Hat nash' in the boot sequence ??? (rpm comment)
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> 
> >
> >     $ locate nash
> >     /usr/share/man/man8/nash.8.gz
> >     /sbin/nash
> >     $ rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/nash
> >     mkinitrd-3.5.22-1
> >
> 
> I have noticed that a lot of people use rpm -q --whatprovides <file> to 
> figure out RPM a file belongs to. But isn't rpm -qf <file> more correct? 
> (and quicker to type as well :-) )
> 
> 
> rpm --help
> 
> -f, --file      query/verify package(s) owning file
> 
> 
> --whatprovides  query/verify the package(s) which provide a dependency


Well I guess the first point is that I was mixing two styles
of flags.   The more verbose flags are interesting and I suspect
prefered.

   rpm --query --whatprovides /sbin/nash 

   rpm --query --file /sbin/nash 
 or
   rpm -qf /sbin/nash 

The second is that I don't exactly know the difference 
between --file and --whatprovides yet.

Good catch.  I have some homework to do unless someone knows
the specifics.



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